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We found 6387 matches on Event Comments, 1268 matches on Performance Comments, 134 matches on Performance Title, 86 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Afterpiece: Written by [John] O'Keeffe, Author of The Son-in-Law, Agreeable Surprise, Young Quaker, &c &c. Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-strcet, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 20 As 19 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 30 July

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith. Public Advertiser, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1784 08 24 End of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tomer of London by Edwin, in the Character of a Warden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Kean's 1st appearance was at this theatre, 22 Mar.] 2nd piece: The Music compiled by Dr Pepusch. 4th piece: A Ballet Tragi-Comique, composed by Signor Novestris [i.e. George Colman, the elder]. Gazetteer, 23 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Foote, Weston, and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of 2nd piece Hornpipe by Byrne

Monologue: 1784 08 26 As 10 Aug

Event Comment: Receipts: #265 2s. 6d. (250/11/0; 14/4/0; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Dick-Bannister Jun.; Gargle-Wrighten; Simon-Suett; Watchman-Alfred; Spouters-R. Palmer, Phillimore, Fawcett, Wilson, Spencer, Williames, &c.; Wingate-Baddeley; Charlotte-Miss Simson .

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium by Miss Stageldoir and Miss Field. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Event Comment: "We have been frequently displeased at [Palmer's] noisy extravagance of acting in many of his tragic parts, but in none more than in the character of Dionysius in that patched-up pantomimic drama entitled The Grecian Daughter" (Candid Strictures, pp. 6-7). Receipts: #279 16s. (249/8/0; 28/0/6; 1/12/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Receipts: #188 19s. 6d. (174/19/0; 13/1/6; 0/9/0; tickets not come in: 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 10s. 6d. (51/18/0; 27/16/0; 0/1/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece and afterpiece: Never performed here. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for the 9th will be admitted. The excellency of the Play and Farce are so universally acknowledged that any comment would be impertinent; but the director of the evening's entertainment entreats [sic] the publick to be assured that it shall be conducted with every possible degree of propriety and decorum; that the performers are respectable, and their abilities such as he trusts will merit their approbation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Affrighted Dwarf, with a whimsical Transformation into Mad Moll (performers not listed)

Monologue: 1784 11 16 End of Act IV of mainpiece Bucks have at ye all by Cross

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce. Receipts: #127 2s. 6d. (60/2/0; 27/17/6; 0/6/0; tickets: 38/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act III The Sportsmen's Return, as17840916

Song: In Masquerade, by Miss George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #221 10s. 6d. (201/2/0; 19/13/0; 0/15/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Event Comment: Receipts: #112 15s. (84/10; 27/5; 0/10; tickets not come in: 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Dance: As17841203

Event Comment: Receipts: #201 15s. 6d. (179/1/0; 22/4/6; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #171 5s. (150/7/0; 20/0/6; 0/17/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Event Comment: Receipts: #103 11s. 6d. (72/3/0; 29/11/0; 0/0/0; tickets not come in: 1/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Dance: As17841203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Receipts: #173 14s. 6d. (153/18/0; 19/4/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: This Night, the last of performing before the Holidays, will not be counted a Subscription Night, but the Tickets admitted as usual

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Curioso Indiscreto

Dance: As17841218 throughout

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpicce, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #147 15s. (116/0/0; 31/7/6; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Receipts: #105 6s. 6d. (80/6/0; 24/4/0; 0/9/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #61 15s. (42/13; 17/12; 1/10; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior